Silks--their properties and functions.

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• Publication year

  1980

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  Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology

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  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Materials Science

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  PMID 7256555
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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